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The moral value of the Image in Art must consist in its power to arouse a conviction of Beauty.
If a conviction of Beauty is aroused, all images of Passion and Action allied to it will become vitalized.
Vitality in a work of Art thus becomes a communicable element in mind, and so fulfils its function of stimulating vitality in Life.

— Norman Lindsay

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If anyone assumes that going one's own way is the easy way, they are very much in error. There's no harder way to go.

The best love affairs are those we never had.

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Let your conduct be noble, and never sing the National Anthem to people wearing bell-toppers.

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In the art of biography, the idolator is just as objectionable as the debunker.

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